--SvnIwg(Q=.J7iqHi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:05:24 +0100 Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hallo, > Bryan Koschmann - GKT hat gesagt: // Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote: > > > Can anyone give me some input on minimum hardware requirements > > for single track recording/playback? This machine will be > > updated later for multitrack, but right now I have the following > > to use: > > > > celeron 1 gig > > 256 or 512 megs ram > > 40 gig or 80 gig ata100 ibm harddrive > > soundblaster live value > > This is plenty, plenty. > > > I may end up doing dual pentium 3 866 and 512 megs (or more) > > depending on how my upgrading goes (this is my old machine). > > This is plenty as well. > > For recording, you don't even need so much CPU power. Much ram and > fast fat hard disks are more important. But even if you do a lot > of synthesis the 800-900 MHz class is quite powerful. I use an > Athlon 900 in my main machine a lot with Pd. My new laptop has a > Celeron Mobile 1.3 GHz which feels faster but my main machine > doesn't actually feel slow at all. > > Of course you can do things, that kill a 1 gig processor but you > can do things as well, that kill a 2.5 gig CPU. I'm thinking about a page with common hardware recommendations at djcj.org... Something like a table: Hardware unit | Purpose 1 | Purpose 2 | Cost -------------------------------- name of unit | is good | isn't good | $$$ -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: avp@xxxxxxxxxxxx --SvnIwg(Q=.J7iqHi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPoAN5Vuz2hQ8IXD/AQJ16Qf+Mc5QkEgoPXS84Inw3gPqi44hFo8njg3D eSsZ3ukoUY8smK323rWAhCx+ba3AkFFvGSABz1H3HywdP/fGM8rUL7TS+4MdBPbi qNt954y82iGjmnWjXBQeX0PtQ8qor3sYdk4VJaMU/e/sDl2vG/8TYr0TRPSN579H EZ8rGjnQLuKA1mmfy8lzefn2I/81zXmaOhWl2Fdk21+iN2dnb4+Jilr03R50plLc DHsJjZoWHanO8pd5hDhDHqgHnpR0IBLX0p/WYzVX4h9N1t/Q/vED7sYb4Hu5pWxk A0tRov4LNzTJuF1mERx4Rc4yB40J9ShTjfdEeYHotbWBwTtcndTTTQ== =WLD7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SvnIwg(Q=.J7iqHi--